{"id":8175,"date":"2022-06-22T16:08:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T16:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8175"},"modified":"2022-06-22T16:08:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T16:08:12","slug":"gun-safety-deal-puts-cornyns-republican-cred-on-the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8175","title":{"rendered":"Gun safety deal puts Cornyn&#8217;s Republican cred on the line"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Cornyn hoped to get as many as 20 Republican votes for his legislation, which would enact new enhanced background checks on people younger than 21, grant states money for red flag laws and crisis intervention and close a loophole on domestic abusers\u2019 firearm access. On Monday the vast majority of the conference voted against advancing the legislation, with 14 Republicans voting to advance the legislation and supportive Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) absent.&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;Faced with a chorus of boos and a rebuke from the Texas GOP over the weekend, Cornyn got a taste of what the reaction could be on the right for Republicans who vote for the Senate\u2019s bill designed to curb mass shootings in America. What\u2019s more, on Monday evening the NRA announced opposition to the package crafted by a quartet of senators that includes Cornyn, whose A+ rating from the gun group is probably about to take a downgrade.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/06\/22\/texas-republican-gun-deal-00041231\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/06\/22\/texas-republican-gun-deal-00041231<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Cornyn hoped to get as many as 20 Republican votes for his legislation, which would enact new enhanced background checks on people younger than 21, grant states money for red flag laws and crisis intervention and close a loophole on domestic abusers\u2019 firearm access. On Monday the vast majority of the conference voted against advancing the legislation, with 14 Republicans voting to advance the legislation and supportive Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) absent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Faced with a chorus of boos and a rebuke from the Texas GOP over the weekend, Cornyn got a taste of what the reaction could be on the right for Republicans who vote for the Senate\u2019s bill designed to curb mass shootings in America. What\u2019s more, on Monday evening the NRA announced opposition to the package crafted by a quartet of senators that includes Cornyn, whose A+ rating from the gun group is probably about to take a downgrade.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[905,542,1657,113,407,112,406,109,906,1656,865,1290],"class_list":["post-8175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-bill","tag-congress","tag-cornyn","tag-gun-control","tag-gun-deaths","tag-gun-laws","tag-gun-violence","tag-guns","tag-legislation","tag-massacre","tag-senate","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8176,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8175\/revisions\/8176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}